Trump blasts National Review after anti-Trump manifesto

Donald Trump responded precisely as expected to the National Review's anti-Trump special issue: With a late-night tweetstorm mocking the venerable conservative magazine and its circulation numbers.

In its cover story written by the magazine's editors, National Review excoriated Trump as a "philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones." The issue also contains more than 20 short essays by conservative luminaries such as Glenn Beck and Mark Helprin — all of them blasting Trump in scorched-earth language.

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Trump's rebuttal:

National Review is a failing publication that has lost it's way. It's circulation is way down w its influence being at an all time low. Sad!